Extract text from report layouts or executables (RPX)
To convert RPX files to another format, you need ActiveReports or other Developer software.
To convert other file formats to the "Report Definition File" file type, you need software like ActiveReports or a similar tool.
RPX files serve multiple highly specialized technical roles. Most commonly, they are report layout definition files used by ActiveReports (developed by Mescius, formerly GrapeCity). These files use an XML or UTF-8 structure to define how data should be formatted, positioned, and printed. Another major use case for the .rpx extension is as a compiled executable application for the Nintendo Wii U console. Less frequently, hardware engineers use Xilinx Vivado to generate RPX files that store power analysis and timing summary reports.
Because these files belong to closed, specialized environments, they carry strict limitations. ActiveReports RPX files are essentially empty structural templates. They do not contain the actual database records, which means you cannot share them as readable final documents with clients. Wii U RPX files are proprietary PowerPC ELF binaries designed exclusively for Nintendo hardware; they cannot run natively on Windows, macOS, or Linux, and analyzing them requires complex emulation software.
Users often want to convert ActiveReports .RPX files to standard visual formats like PDF, HTML, or XLSX. However, doing this outside the original software is frustrating and usually results in a messy raw XML dump rather than a formatted table. To get a proper document, you need an active developer license and the live database connection to generate the final export. Similarly, you cannot magically convert a Wii U executable into a standard PC EXE file because the underlying CPU architectures are fundamentally different.
These formats are notoriously difficult to open or convert online because standard converters lack the proprietary reporting engines or hardware emulators needed to process them. Often, only the original software can properly read or export the data. If our analysis detects standard underlying XML or readable text strings inside an executable, you can quickly inspect the contents without installing massive SDKs or paying for expensive developer tools.
Convert.Guru analyzes your RPX file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted WUX, REPX, PDF, ZIP, ELF, TXT, XLSX, MDB, DOCX, PNG, JPG, RPT and ENC files.
If you want to convert RPX file to WUD, WUX, INDD, QXP, PUB, PMD, PM6, PM7, PM8, PM9, PM10 or PM11, you can use ActiveReports or similar software from the "Report Layout & Executable Binary" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MDI, PUB, PDP, PM4, P65, COMIC, WEBTEMPLATE, PMD, SPUB, INDD, PM5 or QXP files to RPX, try ActiveReports or another comparable tool in the "Report Layout & Executable Binary" category.
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our RPX converter.